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We ain't talking about Halloween—yet.
When Donovan wrote Season of the Witch in 1966, the year before the infamous Summer of Love, it alluded to the delusion, paranoia, maybe some schizophrenia, and other psychological demons that haunted his psyche. It can be said that, at the time, the youth culture of his time was not as copacetic as it may have appeared to him.
We want good vibes right now, but it's been a tense week in our streets and feeds: Only six days in to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and its shockwaves—and the shockwaves from decades of grief and loss—are hitting Montreal hard.
As much as we want to take these weekly newsletters to celebrate the city in all its forms, we won't deny what's happening right now and how it impacts our local communities. It leaves us at a loss for words, but we found some sage ones from Toula Drimonis in her weekly editorial column for Cult MTL this week:
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